| January 13 | Congress changes U.S. flag to 15 stars and 15 stripes |
| January 14 | Dr. Jessee Bennet of Edom Va, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation on his wife |
| February 4 | French National Convention proclaims abolishment of slavery |
| February 10 | Joseph Haydn's 99th Symphony in E, premieres |
| February 11 | 1st session of U.S. Senate open to the public |
| February 14 | 1st U.S. textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Philadelphia |
| February 28 | U.S. Senate voids Pennsylvania's election of Abraham Gallatin |
| March 3 | 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D |
| March 3 | Richard Allen founded AME Church |
| March 11 | Royal Theatre in London's Dury Lane opens |
| March 14 | Eli Whitney patents cotton gin |
| March 22 | Congress bans U.S. vessels from supplying slaves to other countries |
| March 23 | 1st U.S. patent (Joseph G Pierson for a riveting machine) |
| March 23 | Josiah Pierson patents a "cold-header" (rivet) machine |
| March 23 | Lieutenant-General Tadeusz Kosciuszko returns to Poland |
| March 27 | U.S. Navy forms |
| March 28 | Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August) |
| April 21 | New York City formally declares coast of Ellis Island publically owned, so they can build forts to protect New York City from British |
| May 6 | Haiti, under Toussaint L'Ouverture, revolts against France |
| May 8 | U.S. Post Office established |
| May 17 | Hard frost in southern New England |
| May 18 | 2nd battle of Bouvines (France-Austria) |
| June 1 | English fleet under Richard Earl Howe defeats French |
| June 4 | Congress passes Neutrality Act, bans Americans from serving in armed forces of foreign powers |
| June 5 | Congress prohibits citizens from serving in foreign armed forces |
| June 10 | Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, forms |
| June 10 | France revolutionary regime begins trials |
| June 16 | 1st stone layed at Dutch biggest grain windmill (De Walvisch) |
| June 23 | Empress Catherine II grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev |
| June 25 | French troops occupy Charleroi |
| June 26 | Battle of Colors: France under Jourdan beats Austrian army |
| June 30 | Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio |
| July 2 | 2nd Battle of Seneffe: France-Austria |
| July 17 | African Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia, dedicated |
| July 17 | Richard Allen organizes Philadelphia's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church |
| July 27 | Coup of thermidor/fall of Robespierre in Paris |
| July 31 | All Jacobijnse clubs together in Haarlem |
| August 1 | Whiskey Rebellion begins |
| August 16 | Hungarian revolutionary Ignac Martinovics arrested in Vienna |
| August 20 | General Mad Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians at Fallen Timbers Ohio |
| August 26 | French troops occupy Lock |
| September 27 | French troops conquer Crevecoeur |
| October 9 | French troops occupy Hertogenbosch |
| October 29 | French troops occupies Venlo |
| October 31 | John Dalton 1st lecture to Manchester Literary/Philosophical Society |
| November 3 | French troops conquer Maastricht |
| November 7 | French troops conquer Nijmegen |
| November 9 | Russian troops occupy Warsaw |
| November 19 | Jakobonen Club forms in Paris |
| November 19 | Jay Treaty, 1st U.S. extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain |
| November 21 | Honolulu Harbor discovered |
| November 22 | Strasbourg Alsace-Lorraine, prohibits circumcision and wearing of beards |
| December 8 | 1st issue of Herald of Rutland, VT published |
| December 15 | Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France |
| December 30 | French troops conquer Grave, Netherlands |
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